Among its conventions are found dream landscapes and figures of the subconscious imagination. Its fictional world gives form to amorphous fears and impulses common to all mankind, using an amalgam of materials, some torn from the author's own subconscious mind and some stuff of myth, folklore, fairy tale, and romance. ... Gothic fiction gives shape to concepts of the place of evil in the human mind (3). ... Macbeth does murder sleep"-the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, gr...

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However following these compliments aimed at Macbeth they probably would have changed their minds. ... (Act 1 Scene 3 Lines 130 and 131) This shows that he is two minds about the situation at this point. ... She doesn't act as surprised or pleased as Macbeth did, but as soon as she gets the information it starts going through the cogs in her mind. ... (Act 1 Scene 5 Lines 62 and 63) She is telling him that everybody can see what is troubling him in his mind. ... If he wasn't evil underneath, then his innocent mind would go crazy and he would not be able to cope with his secret....

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"Macbeth" "Marquis de Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues once said, "The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition." Although aspirations and dreams are a healthy standard among society as a whole, what happens when these desires gain an "any means necessary" approach? In Macbeth, William Shakespeare show that blind ambition and greed can overcome any sense of decency remaining in individuals, turning them into soulless representatives of evil. Shakespeare uses characters, motifs, and tone throughout the novel to portray this theme. ...

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Macbeth Coursework Essay Throughout Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the main character, Macbeth, is conveyed both as a tragic hero and as an evil tyrant. He is a tragic hero, as he falls from grace after being at the top, and suffers with dignity when all have deserted him, especially when the English a...

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